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1x AGP Video Card

Hi. I have upgraded an old system to XP but only get a black screen. Microsoft tells me I need a new video card but I've been unable to find one that will work. (1x cards are very hard to come by!) My current card is a 16MB nVidia Riva TNT2 Pro (AGP).

I really thought my current card would work but Gateway, nVidia, ATI, etc., couldn't provide any more current drivers or suggest another card that wouldn't also require the headache of updating the power supply. The Belarc advisor didn't shed any light either.

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My experience has been that you need at least 32 MB to get WINXP to work properly. I have been using 64 MB and never thought much about it until I tried trouble shooting a machine that had a 64 MB that failed and tried a 16 MB I had left over from an upgrade done earlier in the day. The user just happen to havew his old 32 MB from his upgrade and it worked. Strange as it may seem, I have seen other units with only 16 MB but they had some real cheap thing with its own drivers other than WINXP. You could probably get it to work if you find the drivers. It wouldn't hurt to upgrade the card and the power supply too while you're at it. WINXP on an older unit with the extra video may just be a bit too much.

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